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Body cameras and panic alarms for doctors could help deter violence and harassment
No full textBody cameras and panic alarms in healthcare settings could act as deterrents and reactive solutions to abusive incidents
Fight the patriarchy? Get rich! ‘Financial Feminism’ as feminist neoliberalism
Get PDFThe ‘financial feminism’ movement invites us to fight patriarchy by ‘believing in the financial equality of women’, increasing our financial literacy, and investing according to principles of sustainability and impact. As author and podcaster Tori Dunlap (2022) puts it, ‘the best way to fight the patriarchy? Get rich!’ This paper investigates the financial feminist refrain that financial feminism is ‘just feminism applied to finance’. We interrogate its normative ends - financial equality for women - and evaluate its proposed means: targeted investing and increasing financial literacy by and for women. We suggest that, in contrast to neoliberal feminism, as studied by Rottenberg (2018), which represented a neoliberalisation of feminism, the aspiration here is to create a feminised form of neoliberalism.
In this model of feminism, the only sphere of action, let alone activism, is the market. It is a feminism that operates within the idea that ‘there is no alternative’ to our current system of financial capital. We problematise these assumptions by arguing that in constraining itself within this logic, financial feminism cannot fulfil its normative goals. The only way to bring feminism to the economic sphere is to insist on the ongoing relevance of collective politics. In other words, rather than eliding the political entirely, any feminism interested in financial equality must eschew economic individualism and include a horizon of the economic as political
Automated bandwidth selection for inference in linear models with time-varying coefficients
Get PDFThe problem of selecting the smoothing parameter, or bandwidth, for kernel-based estimators of time-varying coefficients in linear models with possibly endogenous explanatory variables is considered. We examine automated bandwidth selection by means of cross-validation, a nonparametric variant of Akaike's information criterion, and bootstrap procedures based on wild bootstrap and dependent wild bootstrap resampling schemes. Our simulations show that data-driven selectors based on cross-validation and the dependent wild bootstrap are the most successful overall in a variety of settings that are relevant in econometrics. Empirical examples illustrate the practical use of the automated procedures
Wildfires, legal geography and the constitution
Get PDFLooking at what the blog terms the constitution of non-society and the right to life through the prism of evacuation order
Working prisoners in Brazil: laws, policies and practical realities
Get PDFThis briefing describes the law, policy and practice of prison work in Brazil; and offers an analysis of official statistics on working prisoners (as at May 2025, based on government data for the six months to December 2024). It explains how prison work is framed and governed under federal law and describes the challenging operating context in which work and training are provided in the country’s 1,382 state prisons. The briefing draws on the extensive datasets published biannually by the federal government, which provide information on the numbers of prisoners reported to be working (broken down by state), the economic sectors in which work is provided, the extent of private, public and voluntary sector involvement, and whether prison work is remunerated as required under federal law. Given the diversity between states in the amount and type of work done by prisoners, the briefing provides information on three contrasting states (São Paulo, Santa Catarina and Maranhão). Just over a quarter of all Brazil's prisoners were working in the second half of 2024--the highest number since records began in 2016. Prisons themselves are the main providers of work, rather than private or public sector partners. Most work is unpaid or paid below the statutory minimum for prisoners. Over half of the jobs are in the category of ‘prison services’, covering cleaning, maintenance, and similar tasks. This kind of work may be preferable to life in cramped, often dangerous cells; and it has the advantage of earning a day’s remission on the sentence for every day worked. However, it does little to equip prisoners for employment in the formal economy on their release
Cultural aspects of tax preferences in transition economies
Get PDFIn this work we look at the role played by cultural values on individuals’ tax preferences towards
contributing to public goods. More specifically, looking at the transition economies of Central and
Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU), we analyse the role of specific cultural
values in the willingness of an individual to pay more taxes with the aim of improving public good
provision relating to education, health, and support of people in need, as well as to combat climate
change. To this purpose, we integrate Hofstede’s cultural dichotomy individualism-collectivism with
Schwartz’s cultural dichotomy embeddedness-autonomy, as both capture similar values regarding group
interest and self-determination. We posit that, individual values aligned with the concept of
individualism/autonomy will be associated with a greater willingness to contribute toward public good
provision. Our analysis exploits data from the third wave of the Life in transition Survey (2015-
2016). Our analyses reveal that respondents’ willingness to contribute to different types of public
and common goods is positively associated with them holding values compatible with
individualism/autonomy. These associations are statistically significant and robust to changes in
specifications and estimators and to changes in the sample investigated
Measuring the reputational impact of international R&I investments
Get PDFInternational Research and Innovation (R&I) activities involve collaborations at national, organisational, and individual levels between the UK and other countries. The UK’s funding programmes, policies, and regulatory frameworks play a crucial role in supporting these international R&I collaborations. An aim of the international R&I investment by the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is to enhance the UK’s global reputation and influence. Reputation generated through international R&I amplifies the benefits by unlocking new opportunities and competitive advantages.
Despite the critical importance of reputation building, there remains a substantial gap in understanding, capturing, and measuring how international R&I activities influence the UK’s reputation. This lack of knowledge poses challenges in effectively identifying the reputational benefits derived from the UK’s investments in international R&I.
In light of this, the report, commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), aims to make an initial step to provide valuable insights into developing a conceptual framework on how international R&I activities and associated investments enhance the UK’s reputation, and to outline methods that can be adopted to effectively capture and measure the reputational impacts
Consistency between the slip history implied by in Situ 36Cl exposure dating on an active normal fault and the timing of Holocene Coastal Notch Formation, Central Greece
Get PDFWe report agreement between the timing of slip on an active normal fault recovered from in situ 36Cl cosmogenic fault scarp dating with independently 14C dated Holocene coastal notches deformed along the strike of the fault, reinforcing the validity of slip‐rate timing and magnitude fluctuations implied by 36Cl fault scarp dating. The 36Cl‐dated Pisia fault, central Greece, shows slip‐rate fluctuations but the timing of slip derived from this cosmogenic isotope have not been confirmed with an independent dating approach. However,
Holocene coastal notches dated with 14C on fossils occupying the notches exist around the Pisia fault, these can only form when the interplay between eustatic sea‐level and tectonics result in stable relative sea‐level. The 36Cl site close to the center of the Pisia fault records ongoing slip from ∼9.6 to 5.2 (±0.5) ka and 2.0 ± 0.5 ka to the
present day which was interrupted by a low slip‐rate period. Holocene sea‐level stabilized close to its current elevation after 7.0–6.5 ka, so the combination of low slip‐rate and stable sea‐level allowed notch formation. During this time, notches were uplifted by slip on the offshore Strava fault, indicated by elastic half‐space
modeling. Toward the center of the Pisia‐Skinos fault, these notches were then submerged during the high slip period from 2.0 ± 0.5 ka. Our findings reveal that spatial patterns of deformed radiocarbon‐dated Holocene notches agree with the timing of high slip earthquake clusters/quiescent anti‐clusters from 36Cl slip histories and support use of 36Cl to investigate normal faults, crustal rheologies and seismic hazard
Translating, co-creating, and performing: reflections on a 15-year journey for impact into the grand challenge of disaster insurance
Get PDFThe grand challenges society faces compel strategy and organization scholars to engage meaningfully with practice and contribute toward solution development. As global complexities escalate, the importance of addressing these challenges intensifies. While the notion of "impact" in organization theory remains elusive, a recent surge in scholarly work highlights the tensions and challenges associated with conducting impact-driven research. In this essay, we reflect on our 15-year program of research into financial responses to disasters, illustrating the process of doing impact through activities of "translating", "co-creating", and "performing". We show how these activities fostered the emergence of new research questions, new collaborations, and novel impacts. Based on our journey, we generate four reflexive insights. First, translating, co-creating, and performing are an iterative, rather than sequential, process in which these activities partly overlap and build cumulatively on each other. Second, a flexible yet robust impact object is crucial. Third, while co-creation is indispensable, it is also, often, contentious. Finally, impactful research necessitates humility, courage, and persistence
Problematic social media use among school-going adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: correlates with depression, anxiety and loneliness
No full textBackground: During the COVID-19 period, online activities such as internet browsing, online gaming, social media use became increasingly popular sources of entertainment for adolescents. However, excessive engagement in social media platforms may lead to problematic social media use (PSMU), which has been associated with negative mental health outcomes.
Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of PSMU and its association with the psychological factors, including depression, anxiety, and loneliness among school-going adolescents in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic.: Methods: A paper-and-pencil cross sectional survey was carried out between August and September 2021 comprising 543 school-going adolescents (61.0 % males; mean age: 16.13 ± 1.83 years; age range: 9-18 years) recruited through convenience sampling from four selected secondary and higher-secondary schools in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. The self-reported survey included informed consent and questions concerning socio-demographics, lifestyle-related information, and four Bangla version of psychometric instruments (i.e., Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9], Generalized Anxiety Disorder [GAD-7], University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] Loneliness Scale, and the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale [BSMAS]). Results: The prevalence of PSMU in the sample was 26.7 %. In the hierarchical regression analysis, higher mean scores of BSMAS (the score indicates the higher severity level of the PSMU) were significantly associated with being in a relationship (β = 0.11, p < 0.01), having depression (β = 0.16, p < 0.01), anxiety (β = 0.11, p ≤ 0.05), and loneliness (β = 0.19, p < 0.01). The model accounted for 17 % of the variance in PSMU, indicating moderate effect sizes and meaningful associations. Conclusions: The findings suggest that PSMU was significantly connected with depression, anxiety, and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, Bangladesh should prioritise school-based digital literacy, peer support, and awareness programs to curb PSMU among adolescents
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